Born 1944, American Author
In New York — whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame — not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.''
Gilbert Adair – [Graffiti]
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.
Gilbert Adair – [Modern and Modernism]
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.
Gilbert Adair – [Disasters]
We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
Gilbert Adair – [Cancer]